Aug 10, 2014 13:29
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Italian term
ceramica graffita a stecca e a fondo ribassato
Italian to English
Art/Literary
Archaeology
ceramics/art history
Se l’ingobbio è inciso con una punta acuminata e sottile in base per ottenere un disegno, questa ceramica è denominata graffita che può essere sia monocroma che policroma.
Una variante è rappresentata dalla tecnica della ceramica graffita a stecca e a fondo ribassato (dal XV secolo) che consiste nell’incidere il disegno con una spatola anziché con una punta sottile, lasciando emergere il colore scuro del corpo ceramico, con piacevole effetto di contrasto.
Una variante è rappresentata dalla tecnica della ceramica graffita a stecca e a fondo ribassato (dal XV secolo) che consiste nell’incidere il disegno con una spatola anziché con una punta sottile, lasciando emergere il colore scuro del corpo ceramico, con piacevole effetto di contrasto.
Proposed translations
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| 3 | excised and incised <i>sgraffito</i> pottery/ware/slipware |
Barbara Carrara
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| 4 | sgraffito ceramic |
silviacasilli
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| 4 | "a stecca" and "fondo ribassato" sgraffito techniques |
Maria Fokin
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Proposed translations
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Barbara Carrara
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excised and incised <i>sgraffito</i> pottery/ware/slipware
Excised decoration
Pottery decoration produced by cutting strips or shapes out of the soft clay surface before firing. The resulting hollows, notches, or cavities were often inlaid with a white paste to contrast with the dark pot surface. Incised decoration has narrow lines; excised has wide lines.
Incised decoration
A type of pottery decoration in which the soft surface of the clay is cut with a sharp instrument. The term also refers to decoration scratched into the surface of other artifacts and structural features. Incised decoration has narrow lines; excised has wide lines.
Both terms come from the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology, which can be accessed online (re. below).
You may want to have a look at the sgraffito ware entry in it (the entry is too long and google books does not allow to copy&paste).
For sgraffito slipware, have a look at this link
http://tiny.cc/j62ekx
Hope this helps
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Note added at 18 hrs (2014-08-11 07:41:25 GMT)
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Pls note sgraffito should be in italics in the title line, whereas the last portion of my answer should be in roman type. Apologies.
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Note added at 2 days5 hrs (2014-08-12 19:02:07 GMT) Post-grading
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Thank you, Benjamin.
Pottery decoration produced by cutting strips or shapes out of the soft clay surface before firing. The resulting hollows, notches, or cavities were often inlaid with a white paste to contrast with the dark pot surface. Incised decoration has narrow lines; excised has wide lines.
Incised decoration
A type of pottery decoration in which the soft surface of the clay is cut with a sharp instrument. The term also refers to decoration scratched into the surface of other artifacts and structural features. Incised decoration has narrow lines; excised has wide lines.
Both terms come from the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology, which can be accessed online (re. below).
You may want to have a look at the sgraffito ware entry in it (the entry is too long and google books does not allow to copy&paste).
For sgraffito slipware, have a look at this link
http://tiny.cc/j62ekx
Hope this helps
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Note added at 18 hrs (2014-08-11 07:41:25 GMT)
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Pls note sgraffito should be in italics in the title line, whereas the last portion of my answer should be in roman type. Apologies.
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Note added at 2 days5 hrs (2014-08-12 19:02:07 GMT) Post-grading
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Thank you, Benjamin.
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silviacasilli
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Italian term (edited):
ceramica graffita a stecca
sgraffito ceramic
ceramic decoration obtained by scratching the engobe (slip) to reveil the different colour of clay
Example sentence:
the sgraffito pottery is a red earthenware, coated with a white slip through which designs have been incised. (<i>North Devon Pottery and Its Export to America in the 17th Century </i> Author: C. Malcolm Watkins, page 20)
Reference:
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Maria Fokin
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"a stecca" and "fondo ribassato" sgraffito techniques
Through digging the kiln at Castelfiorentino’s Piazza Cavour, we discovered that the potters specialized in two types of sgraffito: the elegant and costly fondo ribassato in which large sections of the slip are scratched away creating the design in relief, and the cheaper and often rather messy polychrome graffita a punta in which rather hurried sketchy drawings were made by scratching the vessel surface with a fine point and then adding various colours and a transparent glaze before a second firing. They do not seem to have produced the graffita a stecca, a specialty of Pisa, made by scratching whorls and dashes with a broad pointed instrument similar to a pen used for artistic calligraphy.
http://www.world-archaeology.com/features/castelfiorentino-r...
Some are of a technical kind (kiln spacers and raw materials) and some are rejects of first and second firings of open forms(eg., plates, bowls, basins) predominantly with "fonso ribassato" and "a punto" decorations, with motifs characteristic of the Valdarno area.
file:///C:/Users/Maria/Downloads/FUCECCHIO_pp280.pdf
http://www.world-archaeology.com/features/castelfiorentino-r...
Some are of a technical kind (kiln spacers and raw materials) and some are rejects of first and second firings of open forms(eg., plates, bowls, basins) predominantly with "fonso ribassato" and "a punto" decorations, with motifs characteristic of the Valdarno area.
file:///C:/Users/Maria/Downloads/FUCECCHIO_pp280.pdf
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